Your kind lre of the 2d seems to forbid all further controversy on the subject of compensation for your late trouble. in asking your attentions so freely I had no doubt of permission to remunerate them, and should have been much happier in that permission. the remembrance of them, however long gratefully, is but a meagre equivalent. against the last sentence of your letter however I must protest as I could not take the benefit of future services but on the condition of duly acquiting them. on this preliminary I shall be happy to avail myself of your assistance in preference to all others and under the same professional restrictions in the future accident to my ill health which I have so much reason to expect. with my acknolegements for the past accept assurances of my friendly and high respect & esteem

Th: J.